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Society for Photographic Education
42nd National Conference: Passage

March 17-20, 2005 in Portland, Oregon
at the Hilton Portland & Executive Towers

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (as of 01/01/05)

printable schedule (96K PDF)

Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Parlor A all day SPE Conference Office
Galleria South 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Student Volunteer Training
Galleria South 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm Student Volunteer Training
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Parlor A all day SPE Conference Office
Galleria South 8:00 am – 10:00 am Final Student Volunteer Training
Ballroom Foyer 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration Begins (Pre-registration only)
Plaza Suite 9:00 am – 10:00 am Executive Committee Meeting
Pavilion West 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Student Seminar – sponsored by Hasselblad
(volunteers & scholarship recipients only)
Plaza Suite 10:00 am – 11:00 am Executive Committee Meeting (w/ED)
Crown Suite 10:00 am – 11:30 am Regional Affairs Education Session
Pavilion East 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Informal Portfolio Sharing
Directors 11:00 am Check-in for Formal Portfolio Reviews
Crown Suite 11:30 am – 12:00 pm Regional Affairs Committee Meeting
Ballroom Foyer 12:00 pm – 6:30 pm Registration (onsite and pre-registration)
Plaza Suite 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm National Board of Directors –
New Member Orientation
Broadway III 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm Academic Practicum Workshops: Career Panel
Broadway IV 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm Academic Practicum Workshops: Pedagogical Panel
Council + Forum 1:00 pm – 5:15 pm Portfolio Reviews
– sponsored by a grant from the ASMP Foundation
Broadway III 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Academic Practicum Workshops: Dossier Building Workshop
Broadway IV 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Academic Practicum Workshops: Curriculum 101 Workshop
Plaza Suite 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm National Board of Directors Meeting
Pavilion West 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Adobe Seminar (pre-registration required)
– sponsored by Adobe
Broadway I 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Mentoring Program
Broadway II 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Multicultural Caucus Meeting
Broadway II 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Women's Caucus Meeting
Plaza Suite 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm National Board of Directors Meeting
  5:00 pm – 7:00 pm DINNER BREAK
Newmark Theatre
(across from hotel, directions)
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Keynote Speaker-Barry Lopez
– sponsored by Fuji USA and University of Oregon
Plaza Foyer 8:30 pm – 10:00 pm Welcome Reception
Pavilion East + Foyer 10:00 pm – 12:00 am Late Night Informal Portfolio Sharing
Friday, March 18, 2005
Parlor A all day SPE Conference Office
Ballroom Foyer 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Registration continues
Ballroom 8:00 am – 10:00 am Breakfast with the Sponsors
Ballroom + Parlor C 8:00 am – 3:00 pm Exhibits Fair (silent auction items on view)
Plaza Suite 8:00 am – 8:45 am Women's Caucus Meeting
Directors 8:30 am Check-in for Formal Portfolio Reviews
Council + Forum 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Portfolio Reviews
– sponsored by a grant from the ASMP Foundation
Broadway I 9:00 am – 11:00 am Mentoring Program
Broadway II 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Career Placement Services
  9:00 am – 10:45 am Presentations
Broadway III+IV 9:00 am – 9:45 am Roger Sayre, "My Mind Went Blank and All I Got Was This Lousy Epiphany" (imagemaker)
Galleria North 9:00 am – 9:45 am Eric Sung, "Fifty Years After the Korean War" (imagemaker)
Galleria South 9:00 am – 10:45 am Richard Newman with Dennis Keeley, Gerald Lang and Victoria Heilweil, "Continuing Integration of Digital Technology into Today's Curriculum" (panel discussion)
Pavilion East 9:00 am – 10:45 am Jane Alden Stevens with Bea Nettles, John Ganis and Stephen Marc, "To Publish, or to Be Published: That is the Question" (panel discussion)
Pavilion West 9:00 am – 9:45 am Bob Edgerton, "The Photography of Harold E. Edgerton" (lecture)
Broadway III+IV 10:00 am – 10:45 am Sara-Jayne Parsons, "Desert Vision: Gertrude Bell and the Framing of Colonial Iraq" (lecture)
Galleria North 10:00 am – 10:45 am Elaine Mayes, "Seeing (and Doing Photography) for Forty-Five Years" (imagemaker)
Pavilion West 10:00 am – 10:45 am Jacques Garnier with Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Robert Johnson, Douglas McCulloh and Clayton Spada, "The Legacy Project: Air Base to Urban Park. A Ten-Year Photographic Document" (lecture)
  11:00 am – 11:45 am Regional Meetings
Broadway III+IV 11:00 am – 11:45 am Regional Meeting: Northeast Region
Galleria North 11:00 am – 11:45 am Regional Meeting: Southwest Region
Galleria South 11:00 am – 11:45 am Regional Meetings: West + Northwest Regions
Pavilion East 11:00 am – 11:45 am Regional Meetings: Southeast + South Central Regions
Pavilion West 11:00 am – 11:45 am Regional Meetings: Mid-Atlantic + Midwest Regions
  11:45 am – 1:00 pm LUNCH BREAK
  1:00 pm – 3:45 pm Presentations
Broadway III+IV 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm John Stamets, "The Historic Construction Record Project" (lecture)
Galleria North 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Lewis Watts, "The Harlem of the West" (lecture)
Galleria South 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Joan Dooley, "Literacy-based Photo Projects from an Inner-City High School" (lecture)
Pavilion 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Bea Nettles, "Time's Passage: Confronting Morality" (lecture)
Pavilion 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Michael Kenna, "Michael Kenna - Thirty Year Retrospective" (imagemaker)
Broadway III+IV 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Benjamin Sloat, "Determined Identity: Historical Representations of Asians" (lecture)
Galleria North 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Monique Silverman, "Revealing Landscape: Place and Perspective in Photography" (lecture)
Galleria South 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Brent Phelps, "Sites of Discovery" (imagemaker)
Broadway I 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Mentoring Program
Pavilion 4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Freestyle Crystal Apple and SPE Student Awards
Pavilion 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Honored Educator - Linda Connor
– sponsored by Eastman Kodak
  5:30 pm – 7:30 pm DINNER BREAK
Broadway III+IV 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm The Photography Institute Reunion (TPI)
Galleria North 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Arizona State University Reunion (ASU)
Galleria South 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Rochester Institute of Technology Reunion (RIT)
Pavilion 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Featured Speaker - Mark Klett
– sponsored by Calumet Photographic
PavilionFoyer 9:00 pm – 12:00 am Late Night Informal Portfolio Sharing
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Parlor A all day SPE Conference Office
Ballroom Foyer 8:00 am – 2:00 pm Registration continues
Broadway III+IV 8:00 am – 8:45 am Multicultural Caucus Meeting
Directors 8:30 am Check-in for Formal Portfolio Reviews
Council + Forum 9:00 am – 3:30 pm Portfolio Reviews
– sponsored by a grant from the ASMP Foundation
Broadway I
9:00 am – 11:00 am Mentoring Program
Broadway II 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Career Placement Services
Ballroom 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Exhibits Fair (silent auction items on view)
  9:00 am – 11:45 am Presentations
Broadway III+IV 9:00 am – 9:45 am Paul Turounet, "Más allá – The Retablos of Migrants along the Mexican-American Border. Public Installation Art in Raising the Social Consciousness of the Personal Journey" (lecture)
Galleria North 9:00 am – 10:45 am Colleen Choquette-Raphael with Samantha Stengel-Göetz and Ellen Garvens, "Fugitive Testimony" (panel discussion)
Galleria South 9:00 am – 10:45 am William Tolan with William Jenkins, Bill Kennedy, Scott Martin and Jeannie Pearce, "The New Workflow: Educational Institutions Transitioning to Digital" (panel discussion)
Pavilion East 9:00 am – 9:45 am Byron Wolfe, "Everyday: A Poetic Diary with Pictures" (imagemaker)
Pavilion West 9:00 am – 9:45 am

Ann Lovett, "Pilgrimage, Tourism and Transformation" (imagemaker)

Broadway III+IV 10:00 am – 10:20 am Benilda Pacheco Beretta, "A Nuyorican Looks Back: Reflections Through Words and Images" (graduate student presentation)
Broadway III+IV 10:20 am – 10:40 am Jesse Burke, "Masculine Perceptions" (graduate student presentation)
Broadway III+IV 10:40 am – 11:00 am Peter Calvin, "Post Becherism and Subjective Typology or the Infield Fly Rule for Visual Artists" (graduate student presentation)
Pavilion East 10:00 am – 11:45 am Dean Kotula with Mariette Pathy Allen, and Cherie Hiser, "Passage: From One Sex to the Other" (panel discussion)
Pavilion West 10:00 am – 10:45 am Paul Berger, "Persistence of Vision" (lecture)
Broadway III+IV 11:00 am – 11:20 am Eric Gant, "Continental-Drift: Manifest Destiny, Surveying and Photography" (graduate student presentation)
Broadway III+IV 11:20 am – 11:40 am Rosemary Kate Jesionowski, "Where are you Going, Where are you From" (graduate student presentation)
Broadway III+IV 11:40 am – 12:00 pm Robert Rainey, "Exploration into the American Family Portrait" (graduate student presentation)
Galleria North 11:00 am – 11:45 am Michelle Dunn Marsh, "Routes to Roots and Beyond: The Ongoing Evolution of Aperture" (lecture)
Galleria South 11:00 am – 11:45 am David Bate, "Stieglitz and the Steerage: The Meaning of Migration and the Migration of Meaning" (lecture)
Pavilion West 11:00 am – 11:45 am Ken Rosenthal, "Seen and Not Seen" (imagemaker)
  11:45 am – 1:00 pm LUNCH BREAK
1:00 pm – 3:45 pm Presentations
Broadway III+IV 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Erina Duganne, "Beyond the Literal: Roy DeCarava and 'Personal' Photography in the 1950's" (lecture)
Galleria North 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Patrick Craig Manning, "In the Space of the Photograph: Recent Video Work by Patrick Craig Manning" (imagemaker)
Galleria South 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Kyle Bajakian with Lisa Robinson, "Re-Storying the American West" (imagemaker)
Pavilion East 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Neil Chowdhury, "Waking from Dreams of India" (imagemaker)
Pavilion West 1:00 pm – 2:45 pm Chris Rauschenberg with Ann Kendellen, Shawn Records, Rich Rollins and Paul Sutinen, "The Portland Grid Project" (panel discussion)
Broadway III+IV 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Sarah Caylor, "Marginalia: The Treatment of the Photography of Lily E. White, Sarah Hall and Maud Ainsworth" (lecture)
Galleria North 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Priya Kambli, "Mixed Media Installation" (imagemaker)
Galleria South 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Horatio Hung-Yan Law, "Sweet Countenances – Portraits of Children Adopted from China in the Pacific Northwest" (imagemaker)
Pavilion East 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm Nancy Howell Koehler with Rod Slemmons, Kelli Connell and Stan Strembicki, "Out of the Darkroom: Changing Processes & Aesthetics" (panel discussion)
Broadway III+IV 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Doug Dubois, "The Vigil" (imagemaker)
Galleria North 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Nicolette Bromberg, "Seattle's Japanese Camera Club: East Becoming West" (lecture)
Galleria South 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Nora Herting, "Big Pictures and the New Sublime" (lecture)
Pavilion West 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm

Alida Fish, "Artistic Discovery" (imagemaker)

Broadway I
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Mentoring Program
Ballroom
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Raffle & Silent Auction
Galleria North 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Membership Meeting with Board of Directors
  6:00 pm – 9:30 pm DINNER BREAK
Pavilion 9:30 pm – 12:30 am Dance Party
– sponsored by Polaroid, Mamiya + Leaf
Council 9:30 pm – 12:30 am Women’s Caucus Video Program
(includes films by Beth Harrington, Leslie Piper and Vanessa Renwick)
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Parlor A all day SPE Conference Office
Crown Suite 9:00 am – 11:00 am Executive Committee Meeting (Former & Current)
Council 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Women’s Caucus Video Program
(includes films by Beth Harrington, Leslie Piper and Vanessa Renwick)
Pavilion + Foyer 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Open Portfolio Sharing
Crown Suite 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Regional Affairs Committee Meeting
Studio Room 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm National Board of Directors Meeting
Studio Room 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm National Board of Directors Meeting
  6:00pm – 8:00 pm Dinner Break
Studio Room 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm National Board of Directors Meeting
Monday, March 21, 2005
Parlor A all day SPE Conference Office
Studio Room all day National Board of Directors Meeting
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Parlor A all day SPE Conference Office
Studio Room 8:00 am – 10:30 am National Board of Directors Meeting

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Conference 2005

Passage
Portland, Oregon
March 17-20, 2005

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